The Food and Drug Administration this week came out with regulations that will force e-cigarette and vaping manufacturers to go through the same onerous process to qualify what they sell as “tobacco products” – despite not having one iota of tobacco involved. There’s only one conclusion to draw here: the FDA doesn’t care about public health. “Vaping” is seen by government health nannies as yet another sinful behavior that irresponsible Americans are participating in when they could be eating kale salads instead. But that takes a fundamentally misguided point of view on the subject. What vaping really constitutes is a […] Read More →

Jonathan Barnbrook. (Photo by Teri Varhol) Design Week: “You said in your talk that ‘Pop music always points to itself’, which is evident in the approach you took to The Next Day. How have you reconciled Bowie’s past and present in The Next Day and Blackstar. Jonathan Barnbrook: “I didn’t know what his present was going to be, which is lack of existence. I think pointing to his earlier self was partly the point of the cover of The Next Day rather than Blackstar. With The Next Day there was this expectation that he had this amazing past and Blackstar […] Read More →